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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Behind a facade of glitzy beach-front hotels, Miami is a seething melting pot of impoverished blacks and immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean. Last week, for the fourth time in a decade, the melting pot boiled over. On the night of the national holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and as the city was preparing to play host to the Super Bowl, a Colombian-born policeman $ shot and killed a black motorcyclist speeding through the streets of Overtown, a ghetto just northwest of downtown. A passenger riding on the rear of the motorcycle was fatally injured...
Previous Inaugural calls for bipartisanship were almost always exclusively pleas for a unified American front in foreign affairs. Bush's seemed aimed primarily at domestic fiscal policy. "We need compromise," he said. "We need harmony . . . The people await action. They did not send us here to bicker . . . Let us negotiate soon -- and hard. But in the end, let us produce." Here, if nowhere else, one heard an almost plaintive cry: Help me, Congress, help me escape from the box I've created...
Still, the White House is considered a plum assignment, especially in television, because almost anything the President does or says makes the front page and tops the evening news. Exploiting this seemingly insatiable appetite for presidential news was one of the Reagan Administration's key contributions to the long history of White House press manipulation. By placing the President in attractive settings -- meeting foreign heads of state or splitting wood at his California ranch -- the White House p.r. apparatchiks provided the networks with the daily supply of visuals they desired, while cultivating the image of an active and accessible leader...
...neatly typed letter to Mayor Marta Gomez de Melendez opened with a cordial greeting. But there was no mistaking it for fan mail. The message from the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) informed the mayor of Cojutepeque that she was obstructing El Salvador's revolution and gave her a choice: resign within 72 hours or face "popular justice." Gomez, a normally outspoken member of the right-wing ARENA party, knew exactly what * the last phrase meant. In the past year, eight mayors who ignored similar F.M.L.N. invitations to quit had been "executed," as the rebels call their...
...Undergraduate Council votes to officially change its name to the Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal People's Labor Front. Party Boss Ken "Fellow Traveller" Lee '89, hired back by the council as a secretary and ideological advisor, leads the Services Committee in setting up shanties to serve as a student center in the Yard and convinces Harvard Dining Services to install four-flavored milk dispensers in the new center...